QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 11th May 2009, 8:14pm)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 11th May 2009, 12:27pm)
Akahele - Node what you don't know-- by Anthony DiPierro
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An exploration of the difference between “communication†and “informationâ€, as well as the role and purpose of an (amateur or professional) author of content. Integrity comes from writing for yourself, and not for your audience.
Doh. I don't think I'm going to read that piece, just on the cluelessness of that statement alone.
For what it's worth, I'm not the one who wrote that summary (in fact, I hadn't even read the summary before just now), though the phrase "Integrity comes from writing for yourself, and not for your audience" is contained in the article which I wrote.
I guess I should start writing my own summaries.
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 11th May 2009, 8:14pm)
Writing serves many purposes-- clarification of thought, catharsis, communication, education/exposition, persuasion/rhetorical, etc. Writing for yourself, or for your audience, are simply DIFFERENT activities. It rather like masturbation vs. sex. It's not an issue of integrity so much as what you're trying to get done.
DiPierro, you wanker.
I believe you're taking my comment out of context. I'd apologize for having explained myself poorly, but you admit you haven't read the article, so, well, read it first then I'll apologize
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QUOTE(Somey @ Mon 11th May 2009, 9:34pm)
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 11th May 2009, 3:14pm)
Doh. I don't think I'm going to read that piece, just on the cluelessness of that statement alone.
Well, to be fair, this was in the context of the statement that came immediately after it: "Ultimately, only an author can judge whether or not his or her work was truly honest."
I'm not sure I agree with that either, though... it's not like it's never possible to know if a person is lying (as opposed to just being mistaken) just by reading what they've written.
But is it ever possible to know that a person is being completely honest
(in a sense beyond merely factually correct) just by reading what they've written? You left out half my sentence - "Ultimately, only an author can judge whether or not his or her work was truly honest (in a sense beyond merely factually correct), so only by making oneself the sole arbiter of success can 100% honesty be part of the goal."
My statement was much more nuanced than you're making it out to be, and both of you left out what I think was an important clarification of what I mean by "writing for yourself" - by "writing for yourself" I mean "making oneself the sole arbiter of success". I'm going to fix the summary. I shouldn't have let someone else write it for me. For that I do apologize.
QUOTE(Somey @ Mon 11th May 2009, 9:34pm)
Besides, fiction can be a means of expressing truth too, after a fashion. You just have to make your intentions clear, right?
I specifically said I wasn't discussing fiction. That's an interesting question, but one which I'm not ready to tackle.
QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Tue 12th May 2009, 1:04pm)
If the writing was as interesting as the choice of accompanying photos it would have been Akahele's best post so far. I think it would be an interesting Web 2.0 exercise to see what other posts might be crafted around the same pics.
Thanks! I had much more fun doing the pics than the writing. Unfortunately, the deal I made with my fellow Internet Review Corporation members included writing articles. Maybe you can convince them to let me out of that promise?